Emily Oldshue brings a leading transactional lawyer's perspective to mergers and acquisitions. Her insight into how to navigate challenging business issues and complex transactions has made her a trusted advisor for a diverse base of public and private companies, investment banks and private equity funds.

In M&A, clients benefit from the breadth of Emily’s experience, which includes significant cross-border work, carveouts, spin-offs, majority and minority investments, joint ventures, divestitures, bolt-ons and a variety of other complex strategic transactions in addition to regular-way public and private M&A.

In addition to her transactional work, Emily counsels clients on ongoing corporate governance matters, including ESG.

Experience

Represented public and private acquirers, sellers and targets in domestic and cross-border M&A and private equity transactions.

  • M&A
    • National Amusements Inc in its pending sale to affiliates of Skydance Media in concert with the merger of Skydance Media with Paramount Global
    • Pfizer in its acquisition of Biohaven Pharmaceutical (BVI), immediately following a spin-off of non-core Biohaven assets
    • Pfizer in its acquisition of Arena Pharmaceuticals
    • Pfizer in its acquisition of Trillium Therapeutics (Canada)
    • Merck in its acquisition of Abceutics
    • Medtronic in its divestiture of investments in more than 70 portfolio companies
    • Medtronic in its acquisition of Mazor Robotics (Israel)
    • Becton Dickinson in its acquisition of the Critical Care business of Edwards Lifesciences
    • Becton Dickinson in its acquisition of the MedKeeper business of Grifols (Spain)
    • Becton Dickinson in its acquisition of NAT Diagnostics
    • Becton Dickinson in its acquisition of the medical business of CUBEX
    • Becton Dickinson in its acquisition of GenCell Biosystems (Ireland)
    • BMS in its option to acquire Serac Biosciences (Switzerland)
    • KARL STORZ in its acquisition of Asensus Surgical (Germany)
    • AskBio in its dual-track process resulting in its sale to Bayer
    • Aptalis Holdings in its dual-track process resulting in its sale to Forest Laboratories
    • Consortium of Boston hospitals in transactions involving the sale of a tri-gen power plant servicing Longwood Medical and Academic Area institutions
    • Sandbridge Acquisition Corporation in its business combination with Owlet
    • Aegerion Pharmaceuticals in its merger of equals with Novelion Therapeutics (Canada)
    • National Amusements in an asset sale transaction
  • Private Equity
    • TriArtisan Capital Advisors in its acquisition of a majority position in TGI Friday’s
    • BlackRock in more than twenty co-investment transactions across industries, including investments in American Express Global Business Travel and Alibaba
    • TPG Capital in its acquisition of J. Crew
    • Symmetry Surgical in its sale to RoundTable Healthcare Partners
    • Bain Capital Ventures in successive investments in Thorley Industries

Advised issuers, underwriters and initial purchasers in IPOs, follow-on offerings and registered and unregistered note offerings across a variety of sectors, including life sciences, consumer, climate and clean energy, food and beverage, financial services, technology and manufacturing. Representative experience includes offerings by

  • Autolus Therapeutics (England and Wales)
  • CRISPR Therapeutics (Switzerland)
  • HOOKIPA Pharma (Austria)
  • Fulcrum Therapeutics
  • Karyopharm Therapeutics
  • Domino’s
  • Wendy’s
  • Dunkin’ Brands
  • Sandbridge Acquisition Corporation
  • Sandbridge X2 Corp.
  • USHG Acquisition Corp. (Union Square Hospitality Group)
  • Climate Change Crisis Real Impact I Acquisition Corporation
  • Climate Real Impact Solutions II Acquisition Corporation
  • Freedom Acquisition I Corp. (Cayman)
  • NextGen Acquisition Corp. (Cayman)
  • NextGen Acquisition Corp. II (Cayman)
  • Tekni-Plex
  • Ellucian
  • Norcraft Companies
  • PennantPark Investment Corp.

Areas of Practice